The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-05

Springfield, Mass, by Mrs. f. A. Hanaford'
THE seventy-fourth annual meeting of the
Vermont State Medical Society will be held
at the capitol October 18th and 1lth.
Mr.. AND Mrs. CHARLES DEWEY, Miss
Mary Dewey, Mrs. e. p. Walton and Mrs.
L. w. Shedd went to Boston Tuesday noon.
JOHN A. RYAN of Omaha, Nebraska, for
merly of Montpelier, and Carrie Mason were
united in marriage at Yuma, Colorado, last
week Tuesday.
BAND rehearsals, which have been sus-
pended for the past five weeks by reason OF
the absence of several memb ers, were re
sumed Monday evening.
Mrs. EMMA L. FREEMAN has vacated her
house on Loomis street and will make that
of her brother George w. Leslie, on Lib
erty street her future home.
S. f.. MOORE of the United States Clothes
pin Company will occupy the James Finn
house on East State street, moving there
from one of the Bradshaw tenements on
Berlin side.
"IT is reported upon good authority that
Colonel Oscar G. Barron of Governor Saw
yer's staff was considered the handsomest
man at the Philadelphia centennial. Com
cord (N. ny Monitor.
COLONEL A. 7. DUNToN, formerly of st.
Adams and for a time connected with the
Pavilion hotel, returns to Clear Water
Harbor, Florida, this fall, to assume charge
of the Orange Bluff hotel.
THE first meeting of the Bethany Ladies'
Reading for the present season was held in
the chapel yesterday afternoon. Prominent
among the exercises was an address by the
president, Mrs Mary p. l.. Wells.
GEORGE II. BYRON of Boston and Mary
L. Caustic of Cambridge, Mass, were united
in marriage at the home of the brides
brother, C. f. Caustic, on Elm street last
Wednesday by the Rev. Mr.. Wright.
IT is not probable that an order for pipe
for the new Waterman can be filed by the
manufacturers before the 1st of December,
and work upon the main is not, therefore,
likely to begin before another spring.
A. G. EATON was last week threatened
with an attack of typhoid fever, and was
consequently detained from his duties as
clerk in the First National Bank. By proper
treatment he was enabled to resume work
Monday morning
FRED j., aged two and one-half years, son
of Wilder II. and Eliza Sowles, died on
Saturday afternoon last, after an illness of
only few hours duration. Funeral serv-
ices were held Sunday afternoon, Rev. Mr..
Wright officiating.
FIVE hundred eighty-eght persons pur-
chased tickets at this station to Barre and re-
turn Sunday afternoon, the occasion of the
laying of the cornerstone of the new Catholic
church to be erected there, and probably
one hundred more went to Barre in teams.
The visitors Were met and escorted by the
Barre cornet band.
MoNTPELIERITEs should not forget to re-
member that the existing carrier system
makes the rate of postage on all drop-letters
two cents per ounce, or fraction thereof,
whether for delivery by carrier or not, and
that the persons addressed are required to
pay on such letters any deficiency in postage
which is discovered.
LOVERS of athletics may look forward to
an interesting display of strength and skill
in wrestling for $780, announced to
occur at Capital Hall on Thursday evening,
October Goth, between X. f. Henderson of
Wells River and ID. +. Spicer of Painfeld
G. w. Flagg of Braintree, the famous
wrestler, will act as referee.
S. II. o. BoswoRTH is preparing to move
his dwelling house, situated at the corner OF
Loomis and Liberty streets, to new founda-
tions upon the same lot and near the prem
ses of j. " Babcock. With the remova
the house will be turned to front on Liberty
street and new house will be built by Mr.
Bosworth on the corner-site thus vacated.
Mrs CLARA WALBRIDGE, aged seventy
four years, mother of Mrs. jefferson Bruce
died suddenly at the home of her daughter
Saturday evening. She was a native OF
Enfield, n. H., and for time resided in
| NOrthfeld. Funeral services We're held
| Monday morning, Rev. j. II. Hincks otfici-
ating, and the remains were taken to Enfield
| for burial.
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